Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.
I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness.
A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.
The purest white seems stained.
The skillful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels.
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.